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TERRIBLE BEAT
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May 12th, 2004, 05:54 PM
I don't see this surviving long. Not that it's a terrible idea, I just don't see the industry supporting it. The features it offers will either be utilized by developers as an afterthought or not at all. Developers want to make money - making money means porting their titles to every console available (GBA, soon PSP and DS). There is already a huge user base for the GBA, so developing for GBA is safe. Making a title depending too much on the new features of the DS isolates you from the GBA market, and it would be too difficult to port to something like the PSP because it doesn't offer the same features. My guess is that it will launch with a few good to decent first party Nintendo titles, lackluster support from third-parties with minimal use of its extra features, and in 6 months it'll just be a fancy looking GBA. Who knows though - if it has a truly killer app that takes advantage of the wirless networking, it could work out great.
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